WikiJava Projects is a training platform for all the Java students.

The system hosts several open source projects, the WikiJava Projects, that are instigated, developed and promoted within the WikiJava community.

The WikiJava Projects are beneficial for everyone.

Junior developers have the occasion of getting some experience in a real project, with a real team. Everybody knows how hard is at the beginning when the CV is empty to find a first job. This idea solves this issue: the CV won’t be empty anymore, all the contributions are registered and verifiable on WikiJava and in the SVN repository. So whatever a developer does for a project can potentially go straight on his CV, looking good for his career.

Senior developers can build up some experience as project managers and software architects. These will be more likely to have a wider angle on the projects and to be able to support them once on the open source market.

Every programmer has a good idea for a program or a service to offer online, most of the time these ideas never see the light, simply because of the lack of time or of knowledge. People with ideas can have their projects developed open source for free. WikiJava is the complete resource for learning how to program and for.

Once the project is ready, because it’s open source under GPL or LGPL licenses everyone can maintain it and get profit from it, in several ways, for example customizing it for his own clients, writing plug-ins and extensions for it providing support or the possibilities are infinite.

The WikiJava Projects are a win win win model in which everyone benefits, it’s useful and it’s a good idea.

We are currently testing the WikiJava Projects framework, it’s going very well so far and we found very few problems.

We believe that during this week we’ll be able to publish the whole thing and go public with the new platform that will allow everyone to work on real open source projects and learn while building up the CV.

On these pages we will give bits and pieces of what’s going to look like.

Stay tuned, we’ll disclose everything in the next hours.

The maintenance went successful yesterday evening. WikiJava staid offline for less than a minute reducing the inconvenience to everyone.

The upgraded site looks pretty much the same but it’s way faster to load the pages due to the new semantic repository and to the better caching of the pages.

WikiJava.org website will be offline today 24/11/2008 starting 7 pm (GMT) for about one hour due to programmed maintenance.

After the maintenance WikiJava will have:

• Newest version of the CMS MediaWiki v. 1.13
• Newest version of the semantic engine Semantic MediaWiki v. 1.2
• Finally removed the social rewarding extension. We’ll replace it soon with something better.

Sorry for the inconveniences caused.